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1. The speaker / person addressed appears first and gives the first element of complex suffixes. | 1. The speaker / person addressed appears first and gives the first element of complex suffixes. | ||
2. The plural / dual suffix is the last to be attached. | 2. The plural / dual suffix is the last to be attached. | ||
3. The plural suffix is voiced when possible | 3. The plural suffix is voiced when possible | ||
4. The dual suffix is never voiced. | 4. The dual suffix is never voiced. | ||
5. Additional persons are placed in between. | 5. Additional persons are placed in between. | ||
6. An exception to this rule are the first person plural + 1 suffixes which indicate a group of people (we)with another single person. Here the extra person is mentioned first hand and the 'group'-suffix is rendered afterwards. This difference in ordering is due to phonotactic rules that prohibit the following of a sibilant by another sibilant, nasal or plosive sound. | 6. An exception to this rule are the first person plural + 1 suffixes which indicate a group of people (we)with another single person. Here the extra person is mentioned first hand and the 'group'-suffix is rendered afterwards. This difference in ordering is due to phonotactic rules that prohibit the following of a sibilant by another sibilant, nasal or plosive sound. | ||